ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,190, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for protecting a network access profile against cloning" was invented by Todor Gamishev (Chatillon, France) and Laurent Coureau (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting a network access profile against cloning. A first mobile equipment includes a first security module having the network access profile. A second mobile equipment is designed to receive the network access profile and includes a second security module. The first and second security modules are designed to establish a logic communication channel with ea...